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and his wife on the city council. they had to know what they were doing was wrong right? how do you explain it? >> i don't know how you think it is right. they also used some of the money to pay their kid's private school tuition. they used the money for furniture. they used the money for stuff in their home in dupont circle. so i can't imagine they thought it was right especially since the scheme was far more elaborate than i ever imagined it would be. meaning -- nothing ever showed up on the s.e.c. reports is he made up a false report. >> bill: yeah. >> so false s.e.c. report then you have a phony statement of economic interest that you filed before congress. you have to know that's not right. >> bill: and then false filings. i want to play a quick clip of something his attorney yesterday, reed weingarten said afterwards. i'm a sure you were there. explaining his partial explanation for it. >> those health issues are directly related to his present predicament. that's not an excuse. that's just a fact. >> bill: so can you blame it on health issues that he recently had,
and his wife on the city council. they had to know what they were doing was wrong right? how do you explain it? >> i don't know how you think it is right. they also used some of the money to pay their kid's private school tuition. they used the money for furniture. they used the money for stuff in their home in dupont circle. so i can't imagine they thought it was right especially since the scheme was far more elaborate than i ever imagined it would be. meaning -- nothing ever showed up...
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people packed city streets from the city hall to m and t bank. coach and ed reed were there. ed reed singing a little. >> ravens celebrating. they had every right to sell brate. >> b 'more super ball champs. >> a special crap game. >> oh, yeah. oh, sure. >> bill: yesterday at the briefing, i have to tell you it was pretty intense overs the drones. we started talking about this yesterday when the news broke about this department of justice white paper. the timing is very significant because tomorrow is the confirmation hearing for john brennan, the president's nominee, a good man, to be the next director of the cia. and brennan is known at the whitehouse, among other things, former deputy at cia, for being the architect of america's drone policy. he is the one who decides when drones are used and who they are targeted and what american citizens might be targeted. this is bound to come up. several senators have already told me they are going to craze this question with john brennan and publicly said so. and just at the time they are preparing for t
people packed city streets from the city hall to m and t bank. coach and ed reed were there. ed reed singing a little. >> ravens celebrating. they had every right to sell brate. >> b 'more super ball champs. >> a special crap game. >> oh, yeah. oh, sure. >> bill: yesterday at the briefing, i have to tell you it was pretty intense overs the drones. we started talking about this yesterday when the news broke about this department of justice white paper. the timing is...
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and questions were raised at the time of the oklahoma city bombing. he had a lot of ties to militia movements. he received a coded message presumably alerting his office or whoever whoever the fax was addressed to, that something was coming. there was an investigation about did he turn over that message quickly enough to the authorities. he eventually was cleared but there was a cloud of suspicion. there were articles and articles written about it. this is a guy whose ideologiology guns and militia fits squarely in the ted nugent view. in this cases, it is not surprising at all that he would bring them. >> bill: we'll continue to take your comments at bpshow and by phone at 1-866-55-press. unless john boehner steps up and says wait a minute, we do have certain standards here, ted nugent will be in the gallery tonight at the state of the union. i dare him. you know also -- you know what already pisses me off is the cameras will be focused on him and when president obama is talking about gun control, it will be a split screen. president obama and ted nu
and questions were raised at the time of the oklahoma city bombing. he had a lot of ties to militia movements. he received a coded message presumably alerting his office or whoever whoever the fax was addressed to, that something was coming. there was an investigation about did he turn over that message quickly enough to the authorities. he eventually was cleared but there was a cloud of suspicion. there were articles and articles written about it. this is a guy whose ideologiology guns and...
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the city came out and celebrated with us. the most exciting part of it was doing the parade in baltimore when we got. >> bill: that was huge in baltimore. filled the stadium. filled the downtown streets. >> it was on the verge of pandemonium. fans were so excited and so -- just so over the top. but still respected our space and our distance but wanted to share every moment with us. it was definitely a moment. >> bill: do you feel guilty about taking the game away from -- you're from northern california. taking it away from the 49ers? >> absolutely not. to the victor goes the spoils. i've been to a super bowl in 2006 with the chicago bears first the patriots and peyton manning and the indianapolis and peyton manning. you walk around every day with a little bit of hurt inside you from that. some people never recover from that loss. >> bill: give us a little scoop. what happens to joe flacco now? >> oh, man. he's going to have to get a new bank account because there won't be enough zeros in the one he has now. >> bill: he deserv
the city came out and celebrated with us. the most exciting part of it was doing the parade in baltimore when we got. >> bill: that was huge in baltimore. filled the stadium. filled the downtown streets. >> it was on the verge of pandemonium. fans were so excited and so -- just so over the top. but still respected our space and our distance but wanted to share every moment with us. it was definitely a moment. >> bill: do you feel guilty about taking the game away from --...
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>> why would a guy watch sex in the city? i watched it with ladies. >> of course. >> i am guilty of that too. >> i thought you watched it alone. >> that's a little aphrodese situation. it helps. i need all of the help i can get, brother. >> listen >> folks, before we go any further, it is time for your "full-court press": >> this is the pull court fres. >> dan. >> other headlines making news on this friday cbs/nfl commentator dan morino will work at the super bowl but while he is talking about the game everyone else will talk about him. the new york post reported he had an affair and fathered a love child with a cbs geoworked with back in 2005. it's just coming out now that that child is approaching 8 years old. former dolphins quarterback has been with the network since 2003. sources say he has paid the former production assistant millions of dollars and has been trying to keep the matter private. things might be a little awkward in that pre-game show the four hour pre-game show at 2:00 o'clock with him on camera four hours.
>> why would a guy watch sex in the city? i watched it with ladies. >> of course. >> i am guilty of that too. >> i thought you watched it alone. >> that's a little aphrodese situation. it helps. i need all of the help i can get, brother. >> listen >> folks, before we go any further, it is time for your "full-court press": >> this is the pull court fres. >> dan. >> other headlines making news on this friday cbs/nfl commentator...
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you couldn't have this in any other city in the country. new york saying good-bye to ed koch the three-term governor. did you ever meet him? mayor. ran for governor, lost. >> i think i met him once at a conference briefly. he was a force of nature. he just knew how to -- he was just -- he knew how to command a room. very entertaining person. when i was working for jerry brown, jerry brown would never go to official meetings of mayors or governors or whatever. we used to send me. and i think it was during one of the conventions in new york that the mayor then, mayor koch, had a reception for the governors at gracey mansion. jerry brown refused to go. so he sent me. and i would -- i was in my 20s. i introduced myself. to the mayor. he was so glad to see me. oh jerry brown. then he took me around personally and introduced me to every governor who was there. that was the kind of guy he was. just took me under his wing. it was just great. >> that's funny. >> bill: yesterday everybody there was 2500 people at this service. at this reform synagogu
you couldn't have this in any other city in the country. new york saying good-bye to ed koch the three-term governor. did you ever meet him? mayor. ran for governor, lost. >> i think i met him once at a conference briefly. he was a force of nature. he just knew how to -- he was just -- he knew how to command a room. very entertaining person. when i was working for jerry brown, jerry brown would never go to official meetings of mayors or governors or whatever. we used to send me. and i...
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the post office has it inscribed on their building up in new york city. you've heard it before. it is famous neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds and now we can add nor saturday mornings. because the big shocker yesterday announcement by the postmaster general patrick donahue, that the post office, having lost $15.9 billion last year, having to make up for loss of revenue has decided they're going to cut saturday delivery service for letters magazines or catalogs starting i think this august. and he pointed out yesterday here's why we have to make some cuts. >> we've lost in single piece volume bill volume, 30 million piece. if you take that, you're talking northwards of $14 billion just that product alone. >> bill: billions of pieces because people are paying bills online, more and more people paying bills online. more and more people using e-mail. fewer and fewer people who actually write letters. i have to tell you, i grew up writing letters. i was away at college i wrote to my parents at le
the post office has it inscribed on their building up in new york city. you've heard it before. it is famous neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds and now we can add nor saturday mornings. because the big shocker yesterday announcement by the postmaster general patrick donahue, that the post office, having lost $15.9 billion last year, having to make up for loss of revenue has decided they're going to cut...
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most powerful city on the planet, washington, d.c. here we are. we are right on capitol hill. kind of quiet here this week. the house and the senate both in presidents' day recess. why? why? i 1999 is a good question. why does the congress get a full week off, in fact, the house took two weeks off for presidents' day? the president doesn't even get the week off right? he took a long weekend. >> bill, you know they're hard at work in their districts. they're working the 9:00 to 5:00. >> bill: i take it back. they're out there meeting with constituents having town halls. uh-huh. no they're not! what a waste. we bring you up to date on the news of the day here in our nation's capital, around the country, around the globe and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. that's our toll free number. we'll also look forward to hearing from you on twitter at bpshow. and on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. the team, peter ogborn and dan henning. phil backert and cyprian bowlding, good morning guys. >> hey hey. good morning. >> bill: welcome cyprian bowlding back. yesterday, one of us had
most powerful city on the planet, washington, d.c. here we are. we are right on capitol hill. kind of quiet here this week. the house and the senate both in presidents' day recess. why? why? i 1999 is a good question. why does the congress get a full week off, in fact, the house took two weeks off for presidents' day? the president doesn't even get the week off right? he took a long weekend. >> bill, you know they're hard at work in their districts. they're working the 9:00 to 5:00....
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city leaders are publically hailing the visit. some worry it will be a grand gesture without leading to more legislation. obama is walking a fine line between getting gun laws throughges and appeasing gun advocates and lobbying groups. during yesterday's google hangout, he admitted he does not think we should ban handguns only assault weapons and he wants to come up with a package that will reduce gun violence without losing second amendment rights. democrats are proposing al bull to avoid the sequester march 1st. it would raise $55,000,000,000 by taxing those making more than a million dollars a year. republicans not surprisingly expected to reject that. more bill press is coming up after the break. stay with us. we have a big big hour and the iq will go way up. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visu
city leaders are publically hailing the visit. some worry it will be a grand gesture without leading to more legislation. obama is walking a fine line between getting gun laws throughges and appeasing gun advocates and lobbying groups. during yesterday's google hangout, he admitted he does not think we should ban handguns only assault weapons and he wants to come up with a package that will reduce gun violence without losing second amendment rights. democrats are proposing al bull to avoid the...
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alabama comes the story in "the new york times" yesterday morning about the city of charleston south carolina famous as the most -- i think it's known for other thing, thank god for its good restaurants. >> city of charleston is polit right in half because cruise ships have started coming into charleston some want to build a new terminal and open them with open arms. some people say, not so fast this is not necessarily good for our community. martha honey is the director of the washington office for the center for responsible travel and has been dealing with issue of cruise ships and responsible travel on environmentally sound travel for 10 years now? >> our organization has been going for 10 years. i have been on the case for about 20. >> 20s years? >> yeah. 20 years. >> we have known each other about that long? >> maybe longer. >> great to see you? >> great to see you. >> my pleasure. >> what about -- let's just start. are these, you know, like they seem to be floating environmental disasters and they are bigger and bigger and bigger. forget the question of whether you would want t
alabama comes the story in "the new york times" yesterday morning about the city of charleston south carolina famous as the most -- i think it's known for other thing, thank god for its good restaurants. >> city of charleston is polit right in half because cruise ships have started coming into charleston some want to build a new terminal and open them with open arms. some people say, not so fast this is not necessarily good for our community. martha honey is the director of the...
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the snow bands did not set up over new york city directly but they were very close, very close to the city. >> so the biggest concentration was accumulation rather was in west haven, connecticut. right? >> around hamden new haven. there were reports from anywhere from 34 to 40. if you were on the west side but new haven on just slightly east there is allegations more. just amazing. i have gotten pictures. i think they finally, can get out. are people allowed to drive again? >> i haven't seen any reports. you want to treat the highways first. trying to get stranded. >> that's the way they maneuver all of that. things should be getting back close to normal. both storms came together same way. a very active northern jet stream with the disturbance and stream lips and moisture. over the gulf stream waters. there was one aspect. we are talking with paul pastelok, the senior meteorologist for accuweather.com. one aspect that surprised me and i saw some evidence that actually hit are the storm surges along the coast. i don't i don't remember snowstorm and, you know, high ocean water coming t
the snow bands did not set up over new york city directly but they were very close, very close to the city. >> so the biggest concentration was accumulation rather was in west haven, connecticut. right? >> around hamden new haven. there were reports from anywhere from 34 to 40. if you were on the west side but new haven on just slightly east there is allegations more. just amazing. i have gotten pictures. i think they finally, can get out. are people allowed to drive again? >>...
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from the great city of asheville, north carolina. hey, robert. >> caller: good morning, everyone. bill my question is once the court makes their ruling or the rulings, what does that mean? does that mean that marriage equality would be the law of the land across the whole united states? >> bill: that's a good question because as kerry mentions 30 some states have a constitutional provision against it. so kerry i'll ask you. what would that mean? those states -- >> so this is the big question, right. this is the number one question. you've got these two different cases. doma just strikes down section three of the defense of marriage act. if they struck it down, right. if they struck down that section, what that would mean is the federal government is no longer prohibited from recognizing legal marriages in states that do it. so if you strike that down, the nine states that perform legal marriages, the federal government would then be able to recognize the marriages performed in those states, right? >> bill: right. >> but the propositi
from the great city of asheville, north carolina. hey, robert. >> caller: good morning, everyone. bill my question is once the court makes their ruling or the rulings, what does that mean? does that mean that marriage equality would be the law of the land across the whole united states? >> bill: that's a good question because as kerry mentions 30 some states have a constitutional provision against it. so kerry i'll ask you. what would that mean? those states -- >> so this is...
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ashley madison for the second year in a row unleashed their least faithful cities in america. number 1, right here in washington, d.c. more cheaters, more extra-marital affairs in washington, d.c. than anywhere on the planet? >> for those who don't know? >> must be per capita. >> for those who don't know ashley madison is an e-mail for married people to log on, find other married people who you can have an afford with and nobody is going to tell. what they do is they look at when are all of their registered users are. last year, the site said washington had a registered 38,000, more than anywhere else. that was in 2011. >> not just per capita. >> that was in 2011. in 2012, it went down a little bit to 34 if you took the number of congress off, would we be number 1. >> people in washington don't know how to go have an affair. people who are registered on ashley madison or whatever are also like -- think of the reporters that have probably gone and registered to see if there are any members of congress. it has to be at least 10,000 reporters that have had that idea. >> david pet
ashley madison for the second year in a row unleashed their least faithful cities in america. number 1, right here in washington, d.c. more cheaters, more extra-marital affairs in washington, d.c. than anywhere on the planet? >> for those who don't know? >> must be per capita. >> for those who don't know ashley madison is an e-mail for married people to log on, find other married people who you can have an afford with and nobody is going to tell. what they do is they look at...
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the district has long been dominated by democrats. i will know will hold a general election april 9th. senator marco rubio is courting wall street. politico is reporting the g.o.p. senator has recently met with high-finance execs including goldman sachs bar c.i.a.s, blackstone and kkr. more bill press coming up after the break. stay with us. people with sore throats have something new to say. ahh ! mmm ! ahh ! finally, there's cepacol sensations. serious sore throat medicine seriously great taste. plus the medicine lasts long after the lozenge is gone. ahh ! mmm ! cepacol sensations. 13450uz broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> pat robertson says, watch out for demons. demons that could be attached on the sweater you buy at a thrift store. never thought about that. did you? good morning. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, february 27th. great to see you today. thank you for joining us. it is the full court press. we are coming to you live, coast to coast from our studi
the district has long been dominated by democrats. i will know will hold a general election april 9th. senator marco rubio is courting wall street. politico is reporting the g.o.p. senator has recently met with high-finance execs including goldman sachs bar c.i.a.s, blackstone and kkr. more bill press coming up after the break. stay with us. people with sore throats have something new to say. ahh ! mmm ! ahh ! finally, there's cepacol sensations. serious sore throat medicine seriously great...
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at the same type of event, you know, speaking the same city hours apart, and he has sort of the same thing that obama has, where the first time you see them, you think that they are speaking directly to you and you show -- it sort of goes beyond -- doesn't feel like a partisan speech, feels like an uplifting sort of america coming together. speech. you know, he's obviously much more conservative than the president or most any democrats but his presentation is very good. he is extremely polished speecher. he did an event with buzzfeed. he is fluent in the, you know, in sort of the details of the east coast/west coast rap wars. he is very versetal. he is not somebody like talking about john kerry earlier who sort of feels like he is from another planet sometimes and rubio is very good at talking to almost whatever audience he is in front of. >> you were the second person this morning who has come paired rubio in terms of obama if he runs, it won't be in the senate very long. he is young. he is attractive. he is artic look at boom. propelled into con tender for president of the united s
at the same type of event, you know, speaking the same city hours apart, and he has sort of the same thing that obama has, where the first time you see them, you think that they are speaking directly to you and you show -- it sort of goes beyond -- doesn't feel like a partisan speech, feels like an uplifting sort of america coming together. speech. you know, he's obviously much more conservative than the president or most any democrats but his presentation is very good. he is extremely polished...
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but he does come across sometimes as the ultimate nanny mayor. nanny state nanny city, if you will. i mean remember, he's the guy that said no smoking in the bars and restaurants. no smoke even outside -- have to keep a certain distance away of bars and restaurants. he banned msg. he made the restaurants put their calorie counts on the menus and he's the guy most recently said you can't buy any soda larger than a 16 ounce drink. right? so all of that kind of stuff yeah people say he's kind of gone too far. by the way i think those are all good measures. should the government be doing that? probably but it's still a pain in the ass, let's say. on guns, he has really stood up, tall and straight! i say that for a man who's probably only about five foot tall. he has been great. so he just got tired of the fact -- he's long been a supporter of tough gun control measures and tough gun safety measures. but he got tired of the fact and frustrated when there were so many politicians who might want to do something about gun control but were afraid to because of the nra and the political clout
but he does come across sometimes as the ultimate nanny mayor. nanny state nanny city, if you will. i mean remember, he's the guy that said no smoking in the bars and restaurants. no smoke even outside -- have to keep a certain distance away of bars and restaurants. he banned msg. he made the restaurants put their calorie counts on the menus and he's the guy most recently said you can't buy any soda larger than a 16 ounce drink. right? so all of that kind of stuff yeah people say he's kind of...